August 2025 marked a milestone in the construction of Hauraki District Council’s $40 million Paeroa Wastewater Treatment Plant - at the halfway mark, it’s coming in on time and on budget. Council’s ...

Motorists across Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty are being urged to plan ahead as a series of roadworks – some delayed by bad weather – are set to impact travel over the coming weeks.

There’s one question that Simon Peterson, who leads the Child Exploitation Operations Team (COET), gets asked more than any ...

New Zealand growers are reporting a strong strawberry crop this year, thanks to favourable growing conditions. Dr Carolyn Lister, principal scientist and science team leader (food and health ...

Shoppers at Rotorua’s Kmart are among the first in the country to be charged a 50c bond to use trolleys. The move, which mirrors Australian Kmart outlets, is designed to ensure people do not steal ...

Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly Niwa) has just released the first-ever national model of flood risk across the entire country, with a public flood hazard viewer so people can see their area’s ...

Multiple websites are down or not working properly this morning, including for Air New Zealand, police and Customs, and some ANZ customers say the bank’s app is again not working after thousands were ...

Stopping leachate from an old dump site entering a Tauranga stream will cost the council nearly $1.5m to fix. Tauranga City Council must carry out infrastructure upgrades to an old Cambridge Rd ...

Two Tauranga Lotto players are celebrating a windfall after each winning $18,149 in Wednesday night’s live Lotto draw, thanks to Second Division wins. The winning tickets were both purchased through ...

New Zealand Police is launching its next big recruitment campaign targeting people who may not realise they are what the agency is looking for - and they’ve brought in the old h ...

A winning First Division ticket has been sold in Tauranga, capping off a successful night for Bay of Plenty Lotto players. Four players from Whangārei, Auckland and Tauranga each won $250,000 in last ...

Bay of Plenty content creator Jordan Watson - known for his How to Dad parenting videos will be taking part in a non-stop 24-hour handball-a-thon at Eden Park on October 30–31. He will be joined by ...